Eric Oemig

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Eric Oemig
Eric Oemig 06A (cropped).jpg
Oemig in 2007
Member of the Washington Senate
from the 45th district
In office
January 8, 2007 – January 10, 2011
Preceded byBill Finkbeiner
Succeeded byAndy Hill
Personal details
Born (1967-11-05) November 5, 1967 (age 54)
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Mary Oemig
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (BS)

Eric W. Oemig (born November 5, 1967)[1] is an American politician and engineer who served as a member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 45th district from 2007 to 2011.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Senate in 2006.[3] Prior to politics, Oemig worked at several tech companies, including Microsoft, where he was a performance manager.[4]

In 2007, Oemig introduced and passed an education performance bill to track student, teacher, and school performance data. In 2008, he passed a budget data bill requiring budget performance data to be presented on the web with fly-thru pie charts and searchable links.[5]

Other focus areas for Oemig included:

  • Locally controlled elections – improving election performance by discouraging non-community interests from campaign contributions. In 2010, Oemig won the Public Leadership Award from Washington Public Campaigns.[6]
  • Green vaccines – improving public health performance by eliminating poisons from vaccines and reducing vaccine injury and death
  • Peak oil – improving economic performance by mitigating the local impact of hyper inflation
  • Toxics in people – improving personal health performance by removing toxic ingredients from consumer products[7]

In the 2010 legislative session, Oemig served as vice chair of the Education K–12 Committee, vice chair of the Government Operations & Elections Committee, and as a member of the Ways & Means Committee and the Water, Environment & Energy Committee.[8]

In 2010, Oemig lost his bid for reelection to Republican Andy Hill.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/66936/eric-oemig
  2. ^ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/
  3. ^ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
  4. ^ http://senatedemocrats.wa.gov/senators/oemig/biography.htm
  5. ^ "Oemig's bill could establish school database". Kirkland Reporter. 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
  6. ^ http://www.washclean.org/Library/AB2010/ab10award-recipients.pdf
  7. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Sen. Eric Oemig testifies on toxin disclosure bill. YouTube.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-06. Retrieved 2010-10-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/elections/201011/Respage11.aspx

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